New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finalised the name for the Maharashtra Chief Minister post. Devendra Fadnavis is the choice for the top post. He is set to take oath tomorrow, December 5, as Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the third term. Devendra Fadnavis, 54 years old, is one of the biggest leaders of the BJP in Maharashtra.
As the suspense of who will be the Maharashtra Chief Minister is over, let us look at the family tree of the Chief Minister-elect, Devendra Fadnavis.
Family Tree of Devendra Fadnavis
Devendra Fadnavis was born in Nagpur to a middle-class Maharashtrian family. His parents were well-respected and actively involved in public service and social activism.
Father and Mother of Devendra Fadnavis (Photo credit: devendrafadnavis.in)
Father
Gangadharrao Fadnavis was a member of the Jan Sangh and served on the Maharashtra Legislative Council representing Nagpur. During the Emergency, many opposition leaders were jailed, and Gangadharrao was one of them. He was arrested during a protest rally and spent a long time in prison.
Mother
Sarita Fadnavis, his mother, was the former director of the Vidarbha Housing Credit Society. She came from the respected Kaloti family in Amravati.
Wife and daughter of Devendra Fadnavis (Photo credit: Raju Shinde/HT via Getty Images)
Wife
Devendra Fadnavis married Amruta Ranade in Nagpur in 2005. Amruta Fadnavis works as a singer and a banker.
Daughter
Devendra Fadnavis has a daughter named Divija Fadnavis, who is 15 years old and currently in school. Even at her young age, Divija is active in raising awareness about global warming and cleanliness.
About Devendra Fadnavis
Devendra Fadnavis was born on July 22, 1970, is a politician and now Chief Minister-elect of Maharashtra.
He will most likely take oath tomorrow. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister in the previous Eknath Shinde Government. He was the Chief Minister earlier from October 31, 2014, to November 12, 2019.
From 2019 to 2022, he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
He became the youngest CM at the age of 44.
In 2019, he briefly held a second term as the CM for five days before he resigned on November 28, 2019.
In 1999, Devendra Fadnavis became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Maharashtra. He won elections in 1999 and 2004 from the Nagpur West seat.
After delimitation, he ran for the new Nagpur South-West Assembly seat and became an MLA. He was also the BJP candidate for this seat in 2014 and won again. Following this victory, Fadnavis became the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
In the 2019 Maharashtra elections, he contested again from the Nagpur South-West seat. This time, he beat Dr Ashish Deshmukh of the Congress by 49,344 votes. Devendra Fadnavis defeated Prafulla Vinod Gudadhe (Patil) of the Congress and became an MLA for the sixth time in a row.
Devendra Fadnavis, elected as Maharashtra’s Chief Minister for a third term, hails from a Nagpur-based family with a history in public service and politics. In this article, read on to learn about how his family tree and more. knowledge Knowledge News, Photos and Videos on General Knowledge
